Elizabeth Kostova Short Quotes

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You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Elizabeth Kostova
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Elizabeth Kostova
I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Elizabeth Kostova
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

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These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

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There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

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Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

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For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

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I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

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As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

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We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

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My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

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History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

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In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

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If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

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He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

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What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

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The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

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It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

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It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

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I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

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I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

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